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Re: Modern manglings of the English language
Posted By: Darien, on host 207.10.37.2
Date: Friday, May 5, 2000, at 21:10:34
In Reply To: Re: Modern manglings of the English language posted by Sam on Friday, May 5, 2000, at 19:57:15:

> Thought of another one. "Discrete" vs. "Discreet." I don't actually remember anyone messing these up, but I can't imagine people don't. And knowing they do bugs me. :-)

Huh. You know what? I've successfully used both terms to date - properly, mind you - without consciously realizing that there was a difference between them. Weird.